Despite her privileged upbringing Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She ..

Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter the notorious ..

Kent 1822. Fearing for his life Thomas Marsh has fled Castle Bay and found work as a mill hand deep ..

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

As the Great War rages Jack's toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham is threa..